The Customer Is Always Right? Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Have Fans and Detractors [0.03%]
患者报告结果测量有拥护者也有批评者
Joey Berlin
Joey Berlin
For too long, some doctors say measures of a physician's quality of care have been about process: the average length of a patient stay, for example, or a patient's readmission rate. The bottom line is results, and that's why a shift to pati...
Staying the Course: Medicine Enters an Unprecedented Session at the Texas Legislature [0.03%]
稳中求进：药物进入前所未有的得克萨斯州立法会审议阶段
Joey Berlin
Joey Berlin
The way the Texas Legislature conducts business during the 2021 session may look different due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the Texas Medical Association's commitment to improving health care remains the same. Some of those goals are up ag...
Gretchen Fuller,Martha Howell
Gretchen Fuller
In the era of COVID-19, clinicians face myriad new communication challenges: muffling masks; glaring face shields; heightened anxiety and fear amongst patients, families, and clinicians; and increased use of telehealth and virtual communica...
Lesa Walker
Lesa Walker
As COVID-19 continues to affect our communities, it is essential to understand the impacts of this outbreak. A new national data platform, developed right here in Texas, can help us do just that: the COVID-19 Registry (registry.rice.edu/cov...
Sean Price
Sean Price
The mental health fallout caused by COVID-19 radiates throughout Texas. In this issue, we look at four of the biggest challenges physicians are responding to as more people say that worry and stress related to coronavirus have negatively im...
Mixed Bag: Some Payers Capitalize on COVID Chaos; Others Help Make Care Easier [0.03%]
喜忧参半：部分支付方借新冠疫情获利；另一些支付方努力让医疗更便捷
Joey Berlin
Joey Berlin
Physicians believe some payers are taking advantage of COVID chaos with their drug policies, but also see some plans taking steps to make care easier during the pandemic.
Sean Price
Sean Price
COVID-19 inflamed the crisis; telemedicine helps Texas physicians cope with the fallout.
Joey Berlin
Joey Berlin
Now that Texas prescribers must check a patient's history in the state's prescription monitoring program (PMP) before prescribing opioids, plus three other drug classes, the errors are becoming more apparent.
Champions of Medicine: TEXPAC-Endorsed Incumbents Head to November Elections [0.03%]
医学界的冠军：TEXPAC支持的 incumbent 候选人竞选十一月期选举
Joey Berlin
Joey Berlin
Each election, TEXPAC, the Texas Medical Association's nonpartisan political arm, throws its support behind candidates who have demonstrated their support for a medicine-friendly agenda.
Sean Price
Sean Price
Two federal agencies oversee the way vaccines reach the U.S. public. But only one of them guides physicians on the best way to use those vaccines. That agency is the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a branch of the U.S. ...